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FWIW both Swift and Rust have had value types and generics that abstract over unboxed values since the start.

> Swift uses subtyping, while Rust uses typeclasses. Even looking only at their type systems, the two are completely different. What does it mean to “use” subtyping vs typeclasses?…

Similarly, the ‘indirect’ keyword can be omitted from Swift example in the blog post, for the same reason. A Swift Array stores its elements out of line, so an enum case payload ca…

> Does anyone know of larger apps built using Factor? The Factor build farm, the website, and the concatenative wiki are all built in Factor, if that counts.

> In 2025 you can run apps targeting W95 just fine (and many 16-bit apps with some effort) FWIW, Windows running on a 64-bit host no longer runs 16-bit binaries.

I wasn’t trying to start a fight over languages, that would be silly. I also wrote a language once and then moved on from it (to your former language ;-)), so I know the feeling! I…

> Bidirectional constraint solving. It's bad for compile time but even worse for predictable diagnostics. That’s really only true if you have overloading though! Without overloadin…

So what did you decide to give up on? Overloading functions with the same name, or bidirectional constraint solving? :) These days though the type checker is not where compile time…

> let a: Double = -(1 + 2) + -(3 + 4) + -(5) > Still fails on a very recent version of Swift, Swift 6.1.2, if my test works. FWIW, the situation with this expression (and others li…

> Any object that is passed into a library function can escape the current thread, In Swift 6 this is only true if the value’s type is Sendable.

I feel like if the first link in your post is a tweet from a tech CEO the rest is unlikely to be insightful.

> This has tradeoffs: increased ABI stability at the cost of longer compile times. Nah. Slow type checking in Swift is primarily caused by the fact that functions and operators can…

> the only-very-recently-stable ABI, You mean 6 years ago? https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/

Find an area to specialize in that has more depth to it than just gluing APIs together.

You might find Kitten interesting: https://kittenlang.org/

This “Jordan Cutler” guy has a nice grift going, makes money writing a newsletter about career advice when according to his resume, he only has five years of programming experience…

The whole point of being an “experienced developer” is that you know more than the new grad. What kind of experienced developer forgets basic computer science on top of which all e…

To be fair, you need at least one person on the team to do the actual work, while everyone else is “communicating and managing expectations”.

Basic coding problems involving data structures and algorithms are table stakes for a programmer. This whole thread is embarrassing.

“Total compensation” usually refers to base salary together with your yearly bonus and vested stock. Mortgage lenders will typically look at your W2 income which includes the bonus…

> The rewrite of the Swift compiler from C++ to Swift is an example of where rewriting is occurring but where there’s a non trivial performance loss as a result. Citation needed on…

Wait, I’m old enough to remember when IntelliJ used Swing. They wrote their own GUI toolkit since then?

Get a math or CS textbook and try solving some of the exercises.

FWIW This stack monoid is more conventionally referred to as the bicyclic monoid in the literature.

> LFortran is structured around two independent modules, AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) and ASR (Abstract Semantic Representation), both of which are standalone (completely independent…